email energy waste

[/ dave /]

> last year doug posted a quip from Business week or Fortune about how much
> k-wattage is burned on email.  the piece showed what amt of k-wattage
> burned the equivalent of a ton of coal or somesuch.  apparently, doug
> discovered that in one month alone lbo had burned  a ton of coal.  anyone
> still have that email or know of the source of that ref?
>
> thanks,
>
> k

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Subject: tonnage
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:35:18 -0400
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com

A couple of weeks ago, Ted Byfield posted a link to a Forbes magazine
article on how energy-intensive computers are. The article claimed that
every megabyte of data transferred on the net burned about half a pound of
coal. This list transferred 1,855 megabytes last month, or almost half a
ton of coal. Gee whiz.

Doug

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/  dave  /